COLLOQUIUM
             Computer Science Department, Boston University

Speaker: Frank Mueller
         Department of Computer Science
         NC State University


Date:  Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Time:  3:30 pm
Place: Room MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street 
       (for directions, see www.cs.bu.edu/colloquium)

Title: Can Timing Analysis Increase the Acceptance of Real-Time Scheduling Results?


Abstract:

Real-time schedulability theory has matured to where it could be used
in practice today. However, industrial use is still mostly limited to
cyclic executives instead of preemptive priority-based scheduling.

This talk conjectures that the lack of adequate tool support for
timing analysis to bound worst-case execution times is one of the
causes for limited acceptance of schedulability results. This leads to
a focus on different directions of our research on timing analysis
that address this deficiency, specifically on approaches that consider
architectural support, power awareness, parametric timing analysis and
the effect of data caches. Finally, the gap between theory and
industry practice is revisited to discuss future directions, both in
research and in tool support to help bridge this gap.

Bio:

Frank Mueller is an Associate Professor in Computer Science and a
member of the Centers for Embedded Systems Research (CESR) and High
Performance Simulations (CHiPS) at North Carolina State
University. Previously, he held positions at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory and Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. He
received his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 1994.  He has
published papers in the areas of embedded and real-time systems,
compilers and parallel and distributed systems.  He is a founding
member of the ACM SIGBED board and the steering committee chair of the
ACM SIGPLAN LCTES conference.  He is a member of the ACM, ACM SIGPLAN,
ACM SIGBED and the IEEE Computer Society.  He is a recipient of an NSF
Career Award.

Host: Rich West